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There’s definitely a Portal reference as you can see above, and I’m pretty sure I saw 8-bit representations of Mario, Dexter’s Lab, and a few other popular cartoons. There’s quite a few pop culture references in McPixel. But whether you fail or pass any given scene doesn’t matter, as you’re being constantly entertained anyway. There’s no progression between the levels to speak of, although later rounds do introduce multi-part puzzles. The puzzles themselves are divided into chapters, with each of the game’s four chapters holding three rounds of six puzzles (or scenes) each, with one bonus round in every chapter holding another six scenes. Some puzzles will have you tapping on things purely to see what happens, some puzzles will elicit a hearty laugh (or at least a wry smile), and a few other puzzles will make no sense whatsoever. At the heart of it, McPixel is either a brilliant puzzle game with a strange sense of humour, or one of the most bizarre puzzlers you’ve ever seen Like many games these days, McPixel was originally released for desktop platforms, but now it’s on iOS. Fully complete all the rounds in a chapter and you’ll unlock the bonus round for that chapter, which is usually more puzzle-solving hilarity. But finding all the gags in every given scene (and eventually finding the right way to solve the puzzle) results in 100% completion for that scene - if you manage to do so for all the scenes in a round, then that round is marked as 100% complete. When you do the wrong thing, you get to watch a short cut-scene that might only last a few seconds. There’s only one possible way to solve every scene, but fail or pass, you’ll be taken to the next scene to try something different, somewhere different.
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You might jump overboard and push a cruise ship to avoid hitting an iceberg, or you might simply cut the red wire of an atomic bomb. Other times, you’ll find yourself shoving a cow into a drum marked “gas”, or you might be throwing a virgin into a pool of acid. You do so by interacting with things - sometimes a tap on a screen is all that’s needed to defuse the bomb. In McPixel, your job is to stop explosions within 20 seconds.